I have installed VMware Workstation 6.5.4 on top of Windows 2008 R2, and while I tried to resume one of my virtual machines (which I moved to Suspended State), I’ve received the following error: Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to.

Solution

1. Open task manager and kill vmware-auth.exe process.

2. Open services.msc as administrator (Right Click on Services > Open as Administrator) and restart “VMware Authorization service”

3. Refresh the VMware Workstation page and try again.

4. Fixed!

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This helps most of the time. Sometimes, stopping and restarting the VMware Authorization service is sufficient; and most of the time, I need to close and reopen VMware workstation, too for the fix to kick in.